Photo of the week: Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Fuchs
USA. Alabama. Camden. 1966. Martin Luther King Jr., along with his children who are getting a chance to work with their father, speaks to potential black voters about sacrifies that were made to gain the right to vote. © Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos
On April 4th, 1968 Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot while he stood on the balcony of a Memphis motel. Despite the fact that James Earl Ray had plead guilty to the murder, he spent the rest of his life trying to reverse his plea. Many theories exist which claim that Ray was not the shooter or that he was just one of many who were involved.
More than 300,000 people attended Dr. King's memorial service. Among them was Attorney General and Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, a strong supporter of the Civil Rights Movement who would also be assassinated two months later. Following King's death, riots broke out in more than one hundred US cities. The Vietnam War, the assassinations, US presidential elections and revolutions abroad would make 1968 one of the most painful years of the century.
After this tragic year the Civil Rights movement continued on though it had lost it's shining star. Though Dr. King was gone, the messages of this Nobel Prize winning humanitarian continues to be taught and practiced throughout the world.
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Reader comments (3)
You should make a version of these photos that can be embedded on blogger's blogs linking back to this original post. I'd love to showcase some of these photos on my blog directing them back to this post.
An amazing photograph.
Comment posted by Thomas Hawk on April 5, 2008
I agree with Thomas
It would be great if we can do so on our blog
Photos have a big mission close to the whole wild world : "Do not forget"
Comment posted by Frances BB on April 27, 2008
An amazing photograph!!!!
Comment posted by máara on May 7, 2008